The Looking Glass Rock Writers' Conference, set in the Appalachian landscape of Transylvania County, North Carolina, offers a rare convergence of rigorous craft and communal retreat. Its 2027 Creative Nonfiction Workshop, led by Eula Biss—a writer whose essays interrogate the intersections of personal narrative, cultural critique, and poetic inquiry—promises an intimate forum for serious practitioners. The conference is anchored by the Transylvania County Library Foundation, an institution with a longstanding commitment to literary access and local engagement. This particular opportunity is a full scholarship provided by the TCLF, covering tuition, room, and board. It is available to Transylvania County residents, as well as merit-based and need-based applicants. The scholarship is not a prize for finished work but a support structure for writers at a critical juncture in their practice. The workshop itself, though details are forthcoming, will likely follow the conference's established model: generative sessions, manuscript discussion, and sustained attention to the essay as a form of thought and witness. The curatorial vision here is one of deliberate scale and ethical clarity. Applicants may submit up to 20 double-spaced pages of an essay or memoir excerpt, or multiple shorter essays, in a standard font. Work may be published or unpublished, and the manuscript submitted for admission need not be the one brought to the workshop. This flexibility signals a respect for the writer's evolving process. The prohibition against names in the text or file name underscores a commitment to blind evaluation, ensuring that the work itself—its voice, its architecture, its urgency—is the sole basis for selection.